TED Talks

Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm

TV-PG
2018 • E81    Mar 15, 2018    15m
"Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster..." Hip-hop owes a lot of the queens of double dutch. Ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt takes us on a tour of the fascinating history of the jump rope.

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Cast of Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm

  • Kyra GauntGuest Star

 

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